i welcome you watching the weekly or not with me. now it has been a traumatic few days for the u.s. city of boston to tear up last struck at its landmark marathon on monday killing three including a child and injuring more than one hundred the attack was followed by an intense manhunt for two suspects three the city eventually saw one of the ledge bombers killed and the other wounded and taken into custody. looks back at the events mayhem took place here at an area still cordoned off at a sporting event that attracted tens of thousands of participants and thousands of spectators from all over the world two bombs went off just seconds apart from each other at the finish line of the boston marathon the explosions were so strong. ripping off people leaving three people dead and over one hundred seventy five people injured despite all of the money the united states spends on security it was

a surveillance camera of a department store that helped pinpoint the two brothers behind the tragedy several memorials like this one have been set up throughout the city of boston to remember the victims of the three people who died include an eight year old boy two young women a twenty nine and a twenty three year old over a dozen victims remained in critical condition for several days many of them needing follow up surgeries despite having between the two suspects lived in an apartment on the third floor of this building in cam bridge now they came to the united states the two brothers of chechen origin back in two thousand and two the younger brother joe hart became a naturalized citizen on september eleventh last year the older brother had a green card dreamt of joining the united states olympics boxing team to get a passport all of the people who knew them were shocked to find out that they're the suspects in the bombings but law enforcement officials are saying that they had indications from the russian government to look into the identity of the older brother to milan they did in fact bring him in for questioning back in two thousand

and eleven to try to stop. possible links to extremists groups at this time they released the older brother and of course now following the days after the bombings at the finishing line of the boston marathon law enforcement yet again tried to establish any possible links the brothers might have had with extremist groups after monday's bombings late on thursday afternoon the f.b.i. finally released photos of the two suspects the ended up coming out of their hiding killing an mit officer hijacking a car releasing the person to whom that car belonged and got in a car chase with police the police officer said that the two brothers were throwing explosive devices out of their car and shooting over a dozen police officers wounded as a result eventually the older brother twenty six year old to milan got out of the car to continue the shootout with the police officers the younger brother stayed in the car ended up running over his older brother getting

a win the car which he eventually abandoned and was able to get away on foot in the meantime police officers captured to marilyn and took him to this hospital in boston suffering multiple injuries this is where he died shortly after one thirty am on friday morning and unprecedented manhunt for joe hart continued for over twenty hours involving thousands and thousands of federal and local law enforcement officers were currently in watertown just several minutes outside of boston now law enforcement officials have established a perimeter in this area going from door to door trying to locate just whereabouts where they ended up with finding him was just a block away from the area they were searching he was up hiding out in one of the houses in this area in a dry docked boat a local neighbor in the person living in this area saw a blood trail and led police to the area where just car was hiding now

a helicopter off the officials was also able using heat signature to. knology to locate your heart hiding out in this boat even though he was covering himself up now it's important to note that a two hour standoff and shootout between police and the heart continued eventually we know that there was negotiating attempts because the officials were very interested in getting him alive eventually they were able to arrest him take him into custody following his arrest your heart was taken to the same hospital where his brother died also suffering severe injuries he's undergoing medical treatment under heavy security and officials are saying that the legal proceedings against him will begin as soon as he's able to communicate after week filled with tragedy shock fear and a mass lockdown the city of boston has breathed out a sigh of relief that locals want to see justice and find out the motives behind the terror rocks that made so many question the illusion of safety they have been

living under just as. massachusetts well the parents of the suspected bombers claim the sons could have been set up by american security services he went to the north caucuses city where the brothers family lives to find out more on that. that middle and sad and naive and amateur boxer who dreamt of representing his adopted country the united states he claimed to have no american friends but married a local woman katherine and they shared a daughter by contrast his younger brother john had a period well adjusted popular in high school and even won a college scholarship yet sadly they were revealed as the main suspects in the boston marathon bombings their father was the first to step up to claim his two boys who are set up i'm confident of my children's innocence and i'm not sure what how thought that he only god knows no one in the household ever owned any weapons i

think my children may have been frightened their mothers to be duds shared her biggest suspicion telling r.c. their her family was under constant aff be ice or valence raising the question why her sons were not stopped if they were supposedly planning terrorism in our house nobody talked about the terrorism my son printed on or got involved in bitterly years ago he was told by a b i like fly by he knew that they knew what my doing they knew what action and what. they were going to how could it happen how could they they were conjoined we. never ever had this is not my two sons are in front of the as b. i confirmed that in two thousand and eleven agents investigated but didn't find any terrorist activity domestic or foreign ethnically chechen that sat night family

first moved from kyrgyzstan to dagestan the republican rush is north caucasus this is the house where the brothers parents live but now there is no one here it's not a nice family a voicing any contact with the media neighbors here are in deep shock at the news. in does believe that any of this happening to the top ny family i know the brothers very well from the childhood we used to live in chechnya together i was their neighbor then we moved here i know they couldn't have carried out the attack and they couldn't have been involved in it they spent most of their lives in the us studied the works there they didn't have any links with the hobbyists and other militants the youngest brother jihad on his space have the social network spent back to mansion at this school number one in my high school and none of those places where he used to study however here are very few people remember that's how the knives brothers. of the family came to darkest on in september two thousand and

one with the boys from the old style school then they apparently managed to get papers to leave dark and stone so they left in less than a year they didn't spend a long time here and they didn't grow up. in search of a new line and new wimbish indeed three decades in the us to heart became an american citizen last year but in that time something or someone made the top of my brother's seemingly turned against the nation which gave them asylum and wish they'd stand the most significant part of their lives by jenna bush the artsy reporting from russia's back to stand republic wasco says it is ready to lend a helping hand in the fight against international terrorist cells agreeing to work closely with american experts on the issue meanwhile antiwar activist david swanson things washington will be too obsessed with security issues now and it won't necessarily bring any positive results. there's a huge escalation in security and fear and in police presence i mean there are sure

there is was a horrific scene in boston but the response will be incredibly disproportionate we will see the intense upsurge in fear and even indian police and military presence this illusion that technology is going to save us that feeling in our skies with drones and covering our buildings with surveillance cameras and treating every airport airline passenger as a potential terrorist is going to save us is to use an incredible delusion we have seen a predictable and predicted even increase in terrorism throughout the course of the global war on the globe or the global war on terror as they call it you cannot fight a war against a tactic and not kill people. and eliminate. violence by other people in fact you have just the opposite effect as top u.s. military commanders have confessed and it has taken very little time for any

measure to appear a highly controversial cybersecurity bill finally gets the i pay for us has a representative from the way they are i'm fresh right after the deadly bombings in boston. on top of the tragedy in boston this week also i saw the usa with one of the its worst industrial disasters in decades leaving fifteen dead more than one hundred injured and dozens still missing an explosion at a texas fertilizer plant was so powerful it registered as a small earthquake and could be heard more than one hundred kilometers away. well you know i think you're going to. have you know the resulting explosion wiped out in time neighborhoods of the small time of west entire blocks of high rises and apartments were mangled by the blast wave as well as a nearby are time and time under school in the immediate aftermath noxious fumes

hung heavy aviary while far as could be seeing burning for miles around a spokesman for the texan department of public safety described what he witnessed. there are walk through the blast area are searching houses earlier tonight mass just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city same crowd exploded so you can imagine what kind of damage we're looking out there. for days on the flames on yet there are reports that ruptured chemical tanks at the plants are now leaking top sins and sparking small far as the area is also being quarantined with locals relate katie while rescue is missing people under the dead breeze also emerge that there may have been serious safety shortfall was at the plant seen courage by decades of negligence by inspect is investigative journalist david lindorff says many of the u.s. communities may also be at risk. over and over companies get cited for not

having these risk plans in place and they get a small fine and then they don't do anything you know the date they maybe go through the motions of having the risk plan but the reality is. it makes absolutely no sense to even have a plant like this in a town but all over especially in the west where you've got fertilizer plants oil refineries and so on they're right in the middle of these small towns with houses all around them and schools and nursing homes and the problem is that in the united states the entire regulatory apparatus that oversees these kinds of safety issues has been captured by industry by corporations through their control of the politicians through their campaign contributions it's really not a lesson for the authorities it's a lesson for the american people that we've allowed our country to be taken over by

corporate interests that are also strong phase i.v. toxins are released by the explosion the planned but still it makes dozens of compounds including gases and volatile chemicals those could spread over the area and prove to be major hazards and chemist professor christopher busby says that there's even more behind this block just. and hydrous ammonia on its own would not be able to produce the kind of devastation that we hear is occurring over there and ammonium nitrate is a constituent of many explosives i don't think that this was caused by an ammonia by one harder simonyan tank ammonia tank exploding but of course ammonia itself is very toxic it's it's it's a respected tree irritant and it would cause lots of serious response to treat track problems but then it cause it's also produced when ammonium nitrate itself is heated up so if you heat ammonia nitrate to about three hundred fifty degrees it dissociates into ammonia and nitrite acid and so these two things would be quite

toxic fumes or anybody inhaling them. and i witness accounts stories from those injured and the expert comments are all available at our website at r.t. dot com you can go there and while you're there you'll also be able to watch more videos of the of the blast and find out what the danger is not. a few moments here not say we've talked to the world's top whistleblower and wiki leaks editor joining the sunday about his meeting with bahrain's main opposition figure stay with us for that. wealthy british style. sometimes classified. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with my next concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cons a report. about international airport in the very heart of moscow. welcome back all right controversial formula one race is set to start as planned on sunday despite protests from the opposition desperately trying to draw attention to

human rights. in the gulf kingdom tens of thousands of people have been venting their anger saying them on the keys using the event to paper over the crackdown on progress activists bahrain's protest movement has been accusing the government of violating freedom of speech valley's opposition leader in the village job is the most prominent figure to stay in prison as many believe he was thrown behind bars just for tweeting against the ruse. reports now on his struggle. not long before his imprisonment bahrain's most famous human rights campaigner was in london talking to another prominent activist and whistleblower julian assange on so we came here to london's ecuadorian embassy which the wiki leaks founder has been calling home for some ten months now in order to have a chat about the man at the forefront of bahrain's pro-democracy struggle i began by asking afghans why he was so keen to invite me over job for an interview on his exclusive r.t.

show braid has one hundred thousand people. the bureau has one hundred fifty thousand twitter followers rides predominantly all the population of earth. sincere arrests of a number of other activists in the brain screen to five. job. training to present to the brain so that right was the most prominent voice for the brain is speaking to julian assange over job was unequivocal about his determination to fight for democracy in bahrain if you have a goal and if you believed you did just. because you were born overcome. difficulties and you know that the changes that you were fighting for it's been good for hundreds so fear is not an easy thing to change.

those changes you have to be willing to pay a price and my that price might be your life for to be over a job that price has become is freedom three months after that interview was that he was sentenced to three years behind bars but according to i phones keeping him in prison under current charges is going to be increasingly difficult for the bahraini government. cartoonish form of despotism he did not resign to the same standard criticizing you for a t.v. it's hard for the people with that much courage to come. you can't be cowed so i think it's long term prospects of course good amnesty international have labeled him a prisoner of conscience but unless the international community wakes up to abuses in bahrain there's little hope that maybe over jobs going to be tasting freedom any time soon. see london's ecuadorian embassy. here go chavez's pick successor is now officially at the head of the world's most oil rich

nation. having been nor curated as the president of venezuela but the going was far from smooth an eclipse majeure i with seven protesters killed in clashes with police this week thousands of supporters of opposition candidate only complete less took to the streets around the country demanding a total vote recount police and national guard units responded to take gas and plastic bullets the country's top electoral body did find a great passion or did caution that majority picturing is irreversible when robinson a professor of psychology at the university of california says there may be an ongoing if effort to destabilize the situation. this is a new tactic on the part of washington and other types of the. not a new tactic on the part of the new of the venezuelan opposition and generally the far right in latin america which aligns with washington the idea is you have an all out to start wars and this civilization campaign this is simply another tactic

within that campaign there's been diplomatic isolation economic sabotage our military activity the attempted coup d'etat in two thousand and two massive us financing for the internal opposition including for property rights and for the organizations that he represents and so we see this very often when this election which is very close and when the united states wants to get rid of a government in this case that we do the job is with little government around an election it will launch violence and trying create chaos and instability and the united states will not recognize the result and this is really at least that this is an incredible focus on the part of u.s. foreign policy because mexico just had elections in which there was massive for all because mexico is a close ally of the united states is the u.s. immediately look recognizes the results in the group of georgia's proposition that therefore the result is no moral authority whatsoever to talk about the going to sort of them elections. the u.s. house of representatives has passed the controversial cyber information sharing and protection act designed to find terrorism in the digital world the legislation also

a massive cry that it's a very jeopardizes people's privacy and blake explained. aides for the white house actually said that we will recommend the president veto this legislation for sharing and protection act it has come under a lot of criticism by its opponents because they say that it does more than what the authors say it does now the authors of cispa they say that this bill will let businesses private companies google facebook and any internet provider these companies will be encouraged to share information with the federal government that will be used to track down and monitor and curb cyber attacks aimed at the united states computer critics say that it puts too much of americans privacy at risk and that the right safeguards aren't there so in turn people would be separate facing their privacy for a little bit of security when the bill was introduced back in february i believe

one of the areas for the second time representative or one of the authors of the bill he said you know we can't have another nine eleven we can't have another terrorist attack it but if we do we will pass any law that needs to happen sure enough to another congressman he actually got up and said well look what happened in boston these were bombs sure they weren't digital bombs but the next ones will be digital bombs so we need to come together for the sake of national security and do something and that's exactly why a lot of people have problems with this bill because the people who are touting it the people who are writing it are people that don't really understand the cyber security concerns and there's a lot of concern over who is coming up with this bill who is supporting it saying that you know boston would be reason enough to pass a cyber security bill is laughable to many people. it's not the first u.s. initiative of the government and the five trying to breach people's privacy. i reports and other white attempts to pry into information. terrorists don't have policies they just have sick minds but eat response to their he acts

governments adopt policies nine eleven was followed not just by two long wars but also by a series of changes in the us laws are sharing in an era where words liberty privacy due process have adopted many many footnotes the patriot act which gave sweeping powers to the government was branded in such a way as to say as a patriot you have to give up certain rights that had been previously guaranteed by the law among many provisions in the act it introduced roving wiretaps where you can be caught. in a phone sweep without a specific warrant the so-called library profession where the state can monitor you reading habits of any you have no connection to terrorism and national security letters a tool used instead of warrants whereby the f.b.i. can spy on you when the service provider has to share your private information can't tell you about it provisions that require banks to report your financial activities to federal agents well civil rights advocates say the public sentiment the familiar argument i have nothing to hide so we shouldn't concern me over the

years it has contributed to the erosion of rights many of the patriot act provisions have been passed and repassed over and over again and they still stand and then the new national defense authorization act contains a provision which allows for indefinite detention without due process at the discretion of the president the statute has no temporal or geographic limitations and can be used by future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield experts say with laws like this once they're adopted they're very difficult to reverse as far as u.s. actions overseas part of the nation's response to terror. policies like torture or drone strikes which target terrorist suspects but also kill civilians overseas terrorism draws strength from the adoption of extra legal violence as a counter measure but it's yet unclear how much security people draw from giving up their rights in washington i'm going to check out. a quick look at other

international news now the number of deaths from the devastating year play in the army's provinces that has now reached two hundred three with eleven thousand people injured the five magnitude aftershocks reported on sunday morning create additional difficulties for rescuers providing supplies into the region is being hampered by damaged roads and traffic jams the six point six magnitude quake struck on saturday morning in two thousand and eight an earthquake in the same province killed almost seventy thousand people and pakistan's military ruler pervez musharraf has been placed under fourteen days. due to appear in court on may the fourth in connection with the sacking and detention of several judges in two thousand and seven we should offer turn to pakistan in march after four years of self exile and was immediately jailed easy expected to face other accusations including his possible involvement in the assassination of former prime minister benazir bhutto. and we have next update takes

a look at the booming gold rush in colombia. i reckon cardiologist dr omar al claims that the war in iraq destroyed iraq's environment even worse than dropping the bomb on hiroshima did dr e.c. puts the data that the number of press cancer cases has grown in the country from fifteen to thirty times cases of congenital heart disease have become fifteen times more frequent case of leukemia have increased thirty fold the doctor puts the blame on the weapons used in the one thousand nine hundred one and two thousand and three invasions of iraq it which nato forces used white phosphorus depleted uranium rounds and other toxic gases and poisonous substances human rights watch and the world health organization have measured radiation levels in iraq and consider many

places in iraq even some very far from the fighting to be contaminated naturally radiation is not racist and foreign soldiers in iraq are not immune usa today even published research results that found that depleted uranium was indeed in the lungs and other organs of navy vets who filed for health compensation claims yet you know saddam hussein seemed like a pretty bad guy but there are always ways to get around the confines of a dictatorship but there is no way to escape from radiation it is truly present so where the divisions of iraq are good for the iraqis well it doesn't seem to be doing too good for their physical health but that's just my opinion.

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